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For the rest of the year, I’m ranking every Billboard #1 hit from 1964, 1974, 1984, 1994, 2004 and 2014 from worst to best in each respective year. I did this in 2023, which you can read the ...
A list of 25 rock hits from the summer of 1984. ... “Sad Songs (Say So Much),” was a Top 5 hit, however only one other tune, "Who Wears These Shoes,” managed to crack the Top 20. ...
A list of the 40 best music videos from 1984. Skip to main content Skip to site footer. ... The Cars dominated MTV in 1984, releasing four hit videos from their Heartbeat City album.
One of the most hard-driving rock songs of the 1980s about fast cars and fast women is Van Halen's 1984 hit "Panama." The song has a bit of a tale that made it stand out when we compiled our ...
Madonna earned her first top 10 hit on the Hot 100 with “Borderline” in June 1984, beginning a streak of 17 consecutive top 10 hits on through 1989’s “Cherish.” ...
Just last week, nearly 39 years since its initial release, "Careless Whisper" also reached one-billion views on YouTube. It is now only the eighth song from the 1980s to join the video-sharing ...
Cyndi Lauper shared the story behind her controversial 1984 hit "She Bop" in a new interview, recalling how she worked to make sure the lyrics about "female masturbation" weren't too "obvious." ...
One of the most hard-driving rock songs of the 1980s about fast cars and fast women is Van Halen's 1984 hit 'Panama.' Here's how it came to be.
The author of the definitive book on 1984's music says after Thriller, pop stars believed multiple hits across genres were possible—so they went for it. Advertisement. Advertisement.
In a peak moment of pop monoculture, synthesizers pumped up songs and MTV forever changed how artists were seen. Here’s how — and why. Music | 1984: The Year Pop Stardom Got Supersized ...